{"id":186679,"date":"2013-11-19T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/19\/the-united-states-air-force-is-broken\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T02:32:00","slug":"the-united-states-air-force-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/19\/the-united-states-air-force-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Air Force is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I talk about how the USAF is a narcissistic organization that is not particularly concerned about serving the soldier on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>What is also a problem is that, even more the other services, the USAF has been thoroughly infiltrated by bigoted Christian Dominionist Evangelicals.<\/p>\n<p>What I call the Talibaptist wing of the body politic.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2013\/11\/air-force-academy-ex-gay-cure-advocate-overseeing-cadet-counseling.html\">put a virulently anti-gay advocate of &#8220;reparative therapy&#8221; in charge of mandatory counseling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The US Air Force Academy hired a man to run their counseling program for young cadets who, for the past two decades, has devoted his entire professional career to the cause of \u201ccuring homosexuality,\u201d and who claims that he himself has been \u201ccured\u201d of the \u201caddiction.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The news of \u201cex-gay\u201d activist Dr. Mike Rosebush running the academy\u2019s counseling program comes on the heels of growing concerns as to whether the academy is serious about becoming a welcoming place for gay cadets in the post-\u201dDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d era.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Rosebush is the chief of Character and Leadership Coaching at the US Air Force Academy, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, putting him in charge of a team of counselors.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Rosebush\u2019s primary counseling experience before coming to the academy was in supposedly \u201ccuring\u201d homosexuality and other \u201csexual addictions\u201d since 1995.  Before that time, he was in the Air Force and also taught at the Academy.  His resume reads like a veritable who\u2019s-who of anti-gay hate and pseudo-science.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is even worse is that he was hired <b>AFTER<\/b> don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell was passed.<\/p>\n<p>We have too many generals in the military anyway, more than we had at the height of WWII, and some of those in the USAF desperately need to be fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I talk about how the USAF is a narcissistic organization that is not particularly concerned about serving the soldier on the ground. What is also a problem is that, even more the other services, the USAF has been thoroughly infiltrated by bigoted Christian Dominionist Evangelicals. What I call the Talibaptist wing of the body &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,1030,1006,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-lgbtq","category-military","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}